Re: Crazy Fractions!!!

i think so.actually i just saw that it is actually an installation thingy.i don't have it installed yet

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Re: Crazy Fractions!!!

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Re: Crazy Fractions!!!

Okay, the first problem looks like this.

The city of Albany is experiencing a movement of its population. At present 85% of the population lives in the city and 15% in the suburbs. Each year 7% of the population moves to the suburbs and 1% of the suburb population move back to the city. Assuming the population of the city + the suburbs stays constant. After 5 years what percentage of people will live in the city?

You can work on that problem on your own before I show you how to do it with a Markov chain.

A couple of questions:

1)Have you heard of the Feynmann story of why he was such a good problem solver?

2)What do you think of back engineering as a method of problem solving?

3)Have you seen gAr and my work on these Markov chains?

I have a long distance call coming in so I will be busy for a while.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I agree with you regarding the satisfaction and importance of actually computing some numbers. I can't tell you how often I see time and money wasted because someone didn't bother to run the numbers.

Re: Crazy Fractions!!!

1)No.

2)It's nice and useful.

3)Yes,but i have never understood it.

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Re: Crazy Fractions!!!

Nice text.Very true.

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Re: Crazy Fractions!!!

Hi bobbym

I would just calculate it by hand and get the answer, but it is too long so let's pretend that I got it correctly.

Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and PunishmentThe knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.